Vaguely reminiscent of ballpoint pens?

After Douglas Adams's  Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

there has now been the initial release of

 SpaceX's Starship User's Guide.

Link to: "Starship User's Guide"

May Update - New Link to: "vehicles/ starship"

Names for Asteroid Bennu's surface features

11 of Bennu's "saxa" (i.e. rocks and boulders)

have now been given mythological names

by the OSIRIS-Rex team.

Link to: NASA "First Official Names Given to Features on Asteroid Bennu"

Congratulations to Yutu-2

By January 3rd 2020 (if all goes well)

China's rover will have been operational

on the Moon for an entire year.

Link to: "China's Yutu-2 rover sets new record for longest time working on the Moon."

Goodbye Ryugu

Having successfully completed its tasks in outer space,

the Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 

is on its way back a little earlier than originally scheduled.

Link to: "Japan's Hayabusa2 leaves asteroid to deliver samples to Earth in 2020"

News from the Luxembourg Space Agency

The tiny landlocked Grand Duchy in the middle of Europe 

keeps on slowly but steadily expanding its space resources initiative.

Link to: "Luxembourg to set up space resources innovation centre"

Link to: "Luxembourg signs two new international partnerships on space"

Link to: "LSA 2019 Space Directory"

NEO Surveillance Mission

NASA's proposed infrared telescope 

Near-Earth Object Surveillance Mission

is primarily geared towards planetary defence

rather than being part of a pure science programme.

Link to: Paul Voosen's related article for sciencemag.org

From Australia up into space

The Australian Government has recently reviewed

its space industry related regulatory framework

so as to make it clearer, more flexible and better suited 

to a more innovative global environment.

Link to: Australian Space Agency news